'Donut' - Portrait of a girl eating a donut on the street

Date:
29 Sep 2022
Location:
Haymarket, City of Leicester
Reference:
HEC01/128/02/01/02
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Picturing High Streets was a three-year project delivered by Photoworks to create a contemporary picture of England’s high streets through artist residencies and a public call out. It was part of the High Streets Heritage Action Zones Cultural Programme, and produced in partnership with GRAIN Projects, Impressions Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, London College of Communications, Photofusion, QUAD/FORMAT, Redeye, ReFramed and The Photographers’ Gallery.

From September 2022 to September 2023, people across England responded to themed fortnightly challenges and submitted their photographs on Instagram under the hashtag #PicturingHighStreets. All entries created an unofficial archive documenting a year in the life of the English high street on Instagram, and a selection form this permanent collection in the Historic England Archive.

This photograph was selected to represent the theme ‘High Street Eats’. The brief for this theme was: ‘From chip shops to chai stops, high streets play host to some of our most treasured places to eat. Whatever your favourite food, these photographs show how high streets bring different cuisines, cultures and communities together’.

The photographer wrote the following text to explain how their image relates to this theme: "My daughter and I were popping into town after school and I treated her to a cheeky donut, we didn’t really have time for a meal as we were planning to go to a school open day, so decided to eat on the go! The late afternoon sun was really powerful as we wandered up the high street."

Content

This is part of the Volume: HEC01/128/02/01 Picturing High Streets: Mass Participation Project - High Street Eats; within the Sub Series: HEC01/128/02 Picturing High Streets: Mass Participation Project; within the Series: HEC01/128 Picturing High Streets; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Clair Robins

People & Organisations

Photographer: Robins, Clair

Keywords

Childhood, Food And Drink, People